Andrzej Jajszczyk is a full professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. He received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees from Poznan University of Technology. He spent several years as a visiting scientist at the University of Adelaide in Australia, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, France. He is the author or co-author of twelve books and over 300 technical papers, as well as 19 patents in the area of telecommunications networking as well as of 70 papers on research funding and higher education. He is an IEEE Fellow. He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Magazine. He served on editorial boards of various renowned journals, such as Annales des Télécommunications, Journal of Security and Telecommunications, and CIC/IEEE China Communications. He held several positions in IEEE Communications Society, such as Director of Magazines and Vice President – Technical Activities. Since 2016 he is Director of the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. He was involved in organization of numerous technical conferences. Andrzej Jajszczyk is President of the Krakow Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Vice-President of the Kyoto-Krakow Foundation. He served as the founding Director of the National Science Centre, a Polish research funding agency. In 2017, he was elected a member of Academia Europaea. Since January 2017 he is a member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC).

Prof. Andrzej R. Pach received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland, in 1976 and 1979, respectively, and the Ph.D.Hab. in telecommunications and computer networks from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1989. In 1979, he joined the Department of Telecommunications at the AGH University of Science and Technology, where he is currently a Professor and Chair. He spent his sabbatical leaves at CNET, France and University of Catania, Italy. He is the Vice-President of the Foundation for Progress in Telecommunications and serves as a chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Chapter in Krakow, Poland. He has been a consultant to governmental institutions and telecom operators in modern telecommunication networks. His research interests include design and performance evaluation of broadband networks, especially quality of service and network performance of access networks and wireless LANs. He has/had actively participated in COST, Eureka Celtic, and 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th FP European programs (ACTS, ESPRIT, IST, ICT, and Security). He co-authored more than 250 publications including 6 books. He served as a technical editor to IEEE Communications Magazine and is an editor-in-chief to Digital Communications - Technologies and Services. He has also been appointed as an expert in Information and Communications Technologies by the European Commission.

Ireneusz Szcześniak received the MSc degree in 2002 from the Silesia University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, and the PhD degree in 2009 from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice, Poland for his work on the performance evaluation of optical packet-switched networks. His research interests include optical networks, specifically fixed-mobile integration. He has four years of professional experience working as a computer scientist for companies in the USA. He has published about twenty articles, some in respected journals and conferences, and received several awards, most notably the Polish National Science Center fellowship and the Fulbright fellowship. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE/OSA journals and prestigious international conferences on telecommunication. Dr Szcześniak is a member of IEEE.

Ireneusz Szcześniak received the MSc degree in 2002 from the Silesia University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, and the PhD degree in 2009 from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice, Poland for his work on the performance evaluation of optical packet-switched networks. His research interests include optical networks, specifically fixed-mobile integration. He has four years of professional experience working as a computer scientist for companies in the USA. He has published about twenty articles, some in respected journals and conferences, and received several awards, most notably the Polish National Science Center fellowship and the Fulbright fellowship. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE/OSA journals and prestigious international conferences on telecommunication. Dr Szcześniak is a member of IEEE.

Ireneusz Szcześniak received the MSc degree in 2002 from the Silesia University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, and the PhD degree in 2009 from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice, Poland for his work on the performance evaluation of optical packet-switched networks. His research interests include optical networks, specifically fixed-mobile integration. He has four years of professional experience working as a computer scientist for companies in the USA. He has published about twenty articles, some in respected journals and conferences, and received several awards, most notably the Polish National Science Center fellowship and the Fulbright fellowship. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE/OSA journals and prestigious international conferences on telecommunication. Dr Szcześniak is a member of IEEE.

Ireneusz Szcześniak received the MSc degree in 2002 from the Silesia University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, and the PhD degree in 2009 from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice, Poland for his work on the performance evaluation of optical packet-switched networks. His research interests include optical networks, specifically fixed-mobile integration. He has four years of professional experience working as a computer scientist for companies in the USA. He has published about twenty articles, some in respected journals and conferences, and received several awards, most notably the Polish National Science Center fellowship and the Fulbright fellowship. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE/OSA journals and prestigious international conferences on telecommunication. Dr Szcześniak is a member of IEEE.

Ireneusz Szcześniak received the MSc degree in 2002 from the Silesia University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, and the PhD degree in 2009 from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice, Poland for his work on the performance evaluation of optical packet-switched networks. His research interests include optical networks, specifically fixed-mobile integration. He has four years of professional experience working as a computer scientist for companies in the USA. He has published about twenty articles, some in respected journals and conferences, and received several awards, most notably the Polish National Science Center fellowship and the Fulbright fellowship. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE/OSA journals and prestigious international conferences on telecommunication. Dr Szcześniak is a member of IEEE.

Piotr Chołdagraduated from AGH University of Science and Technology (Krakow, Poland) as a master of science in networking in 2001. Afterwards, he obtained a doctorate in telecommunications in 2006 from the same university. Then, he joined the Department of Telecommunications there, and now he works as an Assistant Professor.
He specializes in design of computer and communications networks. Although his background comes from technology, as he started his research in the reliability modelling and optimization of resilient multi-layer long-haul networks (like the ones based on GMPLS, that is, generalized multi-protocol label switching), later he moved towards to softer problems, like the effective provisioning of services to the network clients. Thus, he extended his interests to problems embracing the so-calledQuality of Recovery (QoR), resilience-based differentiation in communications/computer networks and QoS/QoR for peer-to-peer networking. Recently, Piotr has focused on risk-based communications networking, as he perceives this area as a very promising research field, where the interface between business needs and threats from one side and the resilience technology from the other can be used to obtain a practical equilibrium where the balance between client needs and technological possibilities can be found.

Dr. Cholda is the co-author of eleven refereed journal papers and two conference tutorials. He is the recipient of the Communications QoS, Reliability and Performance Modeling Symposium Best Paper Award from ICC’06. He worked on network recovery problems in some of the 6. and 7. European Projects (IP Nobel/Nobel II, NoE EuroNGI/EuroFGI/EuroNF, SmoothIT). He was a Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair of NGI 2008 and NGI 2012, a TPC Co-Chair of Communications QoS, Reliability and Modelling Symposium at ICC 2011, and a TPC Co-Chair of DRCN 2011. Now, he serves as a TPC Co-Chair of NOMS 2014.
He is a member of editorial boards of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials and Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies. He also leads the Book Review Column in IEEE Communications Magazine.
He is a member of the ACM and IEEE.

Prof. Andrzej R. Pach received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland, in 1976 and 1979, respectively, and the Ph.D.Hab. in telecommunications and computer networks from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1989. In 1979, he joined the Department of Telecommunications at the AGH University of Science and Technology, where he is currently a Professor and Chair. He spent his sabbatical leaves at CNET, France and University of Catania, Italy. He is the Vice-President of the Foundation for Progress in Telecommunications and serves as a chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Chapter in Krakow, Poland. He has been a consultant to governmental institutions and telecom operators in modern telecommunication networks. His research interests include design and performance evaluation of broadband networks, especially quality of service and network performance of access networks and wireless LANs. He has/had actively participated in COST, Eureka Celtic, and 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th FP European programs (ACTS, ESPRIT, IST, ICT, and Security). He co-authored more than 250 publications including 6 books. He served as a technical editor to IEEE Communications Magazine and is an editor-in-chief to Digital Communications - Technologies and Services. He has also been appointed as an expert in Information and Communications Technologies by the European Commission.

Ireneusz Szcześniak received the MSc degree in 2002 from the Silesia University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, and the PhD degree in 2009 from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice, Poland for his work on the performance evaluation of optical packet-switched networks. His research interests include optical networks, specifically fixed-mobile integration. He has four years of professional experience working as a computer scientist for companies in the USA. He has published about twenty articles, some in respected journals and conferences, and received several awards, most notably the Polish National Science Center fellowship and the Fulbright fellowship. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE/OSA journals and prestigious international conferences on telecommunication. Dr Szcześniak is a member of IEEE.

Ireneusz Szcześniak received the MSc degree in 2002 from the Silesia University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, and the PhD degree in 2009 from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice, Poland for his work on the performance evaluation of optical packet-switched networks. His research interests include optical networks, specifically fixed-mobile integration. He has four years of professional experience working as a computer scientist for companies in the USA. He has published about twenty articles, some in respected journals and conferences, and received several awards, most notably the Polish National Science Center fellowship and the Fulbright fellowship. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE/OSA journals and prestigious international conferences on telecommunication. Dr Szcześniak is a member of IEEE.

Ireneusz Szcześniak received the MSc degree in 2002 from the Silesia University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, and the PhD degree in 2009 from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice, Poland for his work on the performance evaluation of optical packet-switched networks. His research interests include optical networks, specifically fixed-mobile integration. He has four years of professional experience working as a computer scientist for companies in the USA. He has published about twenty articles, some in respected journals and conferences, and received several awards, most notably the Polish National Science Center fellowship and the Fulbright fellowship. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE/OSA journals and prestigious international conferences on telecommunication. Dr Szcześniak is a member of IEEE.

Ireneusz Szcześniak received the MSc degree in 2002 from the Silesia University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, and the PhD degree in 2009 from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice, Poland for his work on the performance evaluation of optical packet-switched networks. His research interests include optical networks, specifically fixed-mobile integration. He has four years of professional experience working as a computer scientist for companies in the USA. He has published about twenty articles, some in respected journals and conferences, and received several awards, most notably the Polish National Science Center fellowship and the Fulbright fellowship. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE/OSA journals and prestigious international conferences on telecommunication. Dr Szcześniak is a member of IEEE.

Ireneusz Szcześniak received the MSc degree in 2002 from the Silesia University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, and the PhD degree in 2009 from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice, Poland for his work on the performance evaluation of optical packet-switched networks. His research interests include optical networks, specifically fixed-mobile integration. He has four years of professional experience working as a computer scientist for companies in the USA. He has published about twenty articles, some in respected journals and conferences, and received several awards, most notably the Polish National Science Center fellowship and the Fulbright fellowship. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE/OSA journals and prestigious international conferences on telecommunication. Dr Szcześniak is a member of IEEE.

Ireneusz Szcześniak received the MSc degree in 2002 from the Silesia University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, and the PhD degree in 2009 from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice, Poland for his work on the performance evaluation of optical packet-switched networks. His research interests include optical networks, specifically fixed-mobile integration. He has four years of professional experience working as a computer scientist for companies in the USA. He has published about twenty articles, some in respected journals and conferences, and received several awards, most notably the Polish National Science Center fellowship and the Fulbright fellowship. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE/OSA journals and prestigious international conferences on telecommunication. Dr Szcześniak is a member of IEEE.

Ireneusz Szcześniak received the MSc degree in 2002 from the Silesia University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, and the PhD degree in 2009 from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice, Poland for his work on the performance evaluation of optical packet-switched networks. His research interests include optical networks, specifically fixed-mobile integration. He has four years of professional experience working as a computer scientist for companies in the USA. He has published about twenty articles, some in respected journals and conferences, and received several awards, most notably the Polish National Science Center fellowship and the Fulbright fellowship. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE/OSA journals and prestigious international conferences on telecommunication. Dr Szcześniak is a member of IEEE.

Ireneusz Szcześniak received the MSc degree in 2002 from the Silesia University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, and the PhD degree in 2009 from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice, Poland for his work on the performance evaluation of optical packet-switched networks. His research interests include optical networks, specifically fixed-mobile integration. He has four years of professional experience working as a computer scientist for companies in the USA. He has published about twenty articles, some in respected journals and conferences, and received several awards, most notably the Polish National Science Center fellowship and the Fulbright fellowship. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE/OSA journals and prestigious international conferences on telecommunication. Dr Szcześniak is a member of IEEE.

Ireneusz Szcześniak received the MSc degree in 2002 from the Silesia University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, and the PhD degree in 2009 from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice, Poland for his work on the performance evaluation of optical packet-switched networks. His research interests include optical networks, specifically fixed-mobile integration. He has four years of professional experience working as a computer scientist for companies in the USA. He has published about twenty articles, some in respected journals and conferences, and received several awards, most notably the Polish National Science Center fellowship and the Fulbright fellowship. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE/OSA journals and prestigious international conferences on telecommunication. Dr Szcześniak is a member of IEEE.

Ireneusz Szcześniak received the MSc degree in 2002 from the Silesia University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, and the PhD degree in 2009 from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice, Poland for his work on the performance evaluation of optical packet-switched networks. His research interests include optical networks, specifically fixed-mobile integration. He has four years of professional experience working as a computer scientist for companies in the USA. He has published about twenty articles, some in respected journals and conferences, and received several awards, most notably the Polish National Science Center fellowship and the Fulbright fellowship. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE/OSA journals and prestigious international conferences on telecommunication. Dr Szcześniak is a member of IEEE.

Ireneusz Szcześniak received the MSc degree in 2002 from the Silesia University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, and the PhD degree in 2009 from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice, Poland for his work on the performance evaluation of optical packet-switched networks. His research interests include optical networks, specifically fixed-mobile integration. He has four years of professional experience working as a computer scientist for companies in the USA. He has published about twenty articles, some in respected journals and conferences, and received several awards, most notably the Polish National Science Center fellowship and the Fulbright fellowship. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE/OSA journals and prestigious international conferences on telecommunication. Dr Szcześniak is a member of IEEE.

Marcin Niemiec, received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications from AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland in 2005 and 2011, respectively. Also, he studied in Carlos III University of Madrid. He joined the Department of Telecommunications, AGH University of Science and Technology in 2009. His research interests focus on security and data protection, especially: security services, symmetric ciphers, cryptanalysis, malware, intrusion detection, and quantum cryptography. Co-organizer of many international meetings, workshops, and conferences. He has/had actively participated in 6th and 7th FP European programs (ePhoton/ONE+, BONE, SmoothIT, INDECT), Eureka-Celtic (DESYME) and several national projects (Real Time Billing, INSIGMA, Lider, SWOP). He is the recipient of the Best Paper Award from IEEE GLOBECOM 2012. He co-authored over 60 publications and reports (papers, deliverables, book reviews, IETF draft, and book).

Marcin Niemiec, received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications from AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland in 2005 and 2011, respectively. Also, he studied in Carlos III University of Madrid. He joined the Department of Telecommunications, AGH University of Science and Technology in 2009. His research interests focus on security and data protection, especially: security services, symmetric ciphers, cryptanalysis, malware, intrusion detection, and quantum cryptography. Co-organizer of many international meetings, workshops, and conferences. He has/had actively participated in 6th and 7th FP European programs (ePhoton/ONE+, BONE, SmoothIT, INDECT), Eureka-Celtic (DESYME) and several national projects (Real Time Billing, INSIGMA, Lider, SWOP). He is the recipient of the Best Paper Award from IEEE GLOBECOM 2012. He co-authored over 60 publications and reports (papers, deliverables, book reviews, IETF draft, and book).

Tomasz P. Zielinski received the M.S. degree in electronics, the D.Sc. degree (habilitation) in electrical engineering and the the scientific Professor title in telecommunications from the AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH-UST), Kraków, Poland, in 1982, 1996 and 2003, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Institute of Engineering Cybernetics and Robotics of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1988. Since 1982 he has been working at the Department of Instrumentation & Measurement AGH-UST as a Research & Teaching Assistant (1982), Associate (1989), Assistant Professor (1996) and Associate Professor (2000). In 2006 he joined the Department of Telecommunications, AGH-UST as a Full Professor. He has authored and co-authored more than 150 scientific journal and conference papers. He is also the author of three monographs (all in Polish): Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Representations of Non-stationary Signals (1996), From Theory to Digital Signal Processing (2002, 2004) and Digital Signal Processing: From Theory to Applications (2005, 2007, 2009). He has been a supervisor of more than 10 Polish research projects and actively participated in a few international programs (EPSR Council UK, ECSON: Engineering and Computational Science for Oncology Network; VECTOR EC FP6: Versatile Endoscopic Capsule for gastrointestinal TumOr Recognition and therapy; NIH, USA: “Efficacy of Laryngeal High-Speed Video-endoscopy”). His research interests include advanced digital signal processing in telecommunication and biomedical systems, especially time-frequency signal analysis. He is an IEEE member.

Tomasz P. Zielinski received the M.S. degree in electronics, the D.Sc. degree (habilitation) in electrical engineering and the the scientific Professor title in telecommunications from the AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH-UST), Kraków, Poland, in 1982, 1996 and 2003, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Institute of Engineering Cybernetics and Robotics of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1988. Since 1982 he has been working at the Department of Instrumentation & Measurement AGH-UST as a Research & Teaching Assistant (1982), Associate (1989), Assistant Professor (1996) and Associate Professor (2000). In 2006 he joined the Department of Telecommunications, AGH-UST as a Full Professor. He has authored and co-authored more than 150 scientific journal and conference papers. He is also the author of three monographs (all in Polish): Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Representations of Non-stationary Signals (1996), From Theory to Digital Signal Processing (2002, 2004) and Digital Signal Processing: From Theory to Applications (2005, 2007, 2009). He has been a supervisor of more than 10 Polish research projects and actively participated in a few international programs (EPSR Council UK, ECSON: Engineering and Computational Science for Oncology Network; VECTOR EC FP6: Versatile Endoscopic Capsule for gastrointestinal TumOr Recognition and therapy; NIH, USA: “Efficacy of Laryngeal High-Speed Video-endoscopy”). His research interests include advanced digital signal processing in telecommunication and biomedical systems, especially time-frequency signal analysis. He is an IEEE member.